'Scottsboro Boys,' new Bacharach musical highlight Old Globe's 2011-2012 season

The Broadway remount of 12-time Tony nominee "The Scottsboro
Boys" and a world premiere musical by Burt Bacharach will highlight
the Old Globe's 2011-2012 season.

The Globe's upcoming season ---- which kicks off in September
and runs through June 2012 ---- is studded with high-profile
musicals, revivals and new plays, as well as the return of the
"Grinch, the company announced Friday. Old Globe executive producer
Lou Spisto said he's excited to bring so many new pieces to the San
Diego audience this year. Here's the lineup:

"The Rocky Horror Show"
---- Sept. 15-Nov. 6 in
the Old Globe Theatre. Richard O'Brien's original 1973 British
stage musical (later made into a cult classic American film) will
be "reimagined for a new generation" in a production directed by
Oanh Nguyen (artistic director of Orange County's Chance Theater,
who's had great success with revivals of "Hair" and "The Who's
Tommy"). Spisto said "Rocky Horror" ---- a campy, sexually charged
spoof of 1950s sci-fi films ---- has been experiencing a revival of
late, including a themed episode on Fox's "Glee" this season. The
production "will be very much geared toward a younger demographic
with a nod toward its roots," Spisto said.

"Somewhere"
---- Sept. 24-Oct. 30 in the Sheryl
& Harvey White Theatre. A world premiere play by Globe
playwright-in-residence Matthew Lopez ("The Whipping Man") about a
Puerto Rican family of dancers in late 1950s New York, whose world
is crumbling as their Upper West Side apartment building is razed
to make way for Lincoln Center. Spisto said the play is filled with
'50s-era dance (Jerome Robbins and other styles) and is inspired by
actual events. "This family may have been in love with the idea of
Broadway, but it's because of Broadway that their world is being
torn apart to make way for this great cultural center," Spisto
said. "Whipping Man" director Giovanna Sardelli will direct.

"Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
---- Nov. 26-Dec. 31, Old Globe Theatre. The 14th annual production
of the Mel Marvin/Timothy Mason musical, directed by James
Vasquez.

"Some Lovers"
---- Nov. 26-Dec. 31, Sheryl
& Harvey White Theatre. Composer Burt Bacharach has written an
all-new score for this musical, with book and lyrics by Steven
Sater ("Spring Awakening") that reimagines O. Henry's classic
holiday fable "The Gift of the Magi" in a contemporary setting. The
small-scale show will feature four actors, two of them musicians,
playing a middle-aged couple and their younger selves, 20 years
before.

"Dividing the Estate"
---- Jan. 14-Feb. 19,
2012, The Old Globe Theatre. Tony-nominated for Best Play in 2009,
Horton Foote's comedy makes its West Coast premiere in a remount of
the Broadway production directed by Michael Wilson, the longtime
artistic director of Hartford Stage. A co-production with Houston's
Alley Theatre, the play tells the story of an 80-something Texas
family matriarch whose adult children begin squabbling over
dividing up her estate while she's still alive. "Michael Wilson is
someone I've wanted to have here and I've been after him for three
years to do 'Dividing the Estate.' Michael is the director that
Horton loved and the family continues to want him to do his work
(Foote died in 2009)."